Judges 15:8; Lamentations 3:3-5; Psalms 42:7
He breaketh me - He crushes me. With breach upon breach - He renews and repeats the attack, and thus completely overwhelms me. One blow follo...
Job 16:6-17 contain a bitter complaint of God's ferocity against Job, in spite of his innocence. The connexion of Job 16:6 with the context is...
giant . mighty man. Hebrew. gibbor. App-14.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
His archers compass me, &c.— The metaphor is here taken from huntsmen. First they surround the beast; then he is shot dead; his entrails are ne...
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. The image is from storming a fortress by making breaches in the walls...
Job's Fourth Speech ( Job 16:17 ) See introductory remarks on Job 15-21. 1-5. Job retorts scornfully that he too could offer such empty 'comfor...
With breach upon breach ] with one blow after another, as a battering-ram makes breaches in a wall.
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom...
Turning from “Miserable Comforters” unto God Job 16:1-22 With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear...
Job immediately answered. His answer dealt less with the argument they suggested than before. While the darkness was still about him, and in some sen...
(7) But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. (8) And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me:...
He breaketh me with breach upon breach ,.... Upon his substance, his family, and the health of his body, which came thick and fast, one after anothe...
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. Ver. 14. He breaketh me with breach upon breach ] So that I have hardly a...
His archers compass me round about His plagues or judgments, elsewhere compared to arrows, and here to archers, surround me on all sides, and assau...
JOB REPROVES THEIR HEARTLESSNESS (vv.1-5) Eliphaz had claimed to be giving Job "the consolations of God," and this moves Job to reply bitterly,...
Grievances of Job. B. C. 1520. 6 Tho...
My calamities have no interruption, but one immediately succeeds another, as it did Job 1 . Like a giant, who falls upon his enemy with all his mi...
JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends ( Job 16:2-5 ). 1. They gave him only verses fro...
Job 16:2 . Miserable comforters are ye all. The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3 . S...
EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than t...
Job Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, like a wall which is being battered down by heavy projectiles; He runneth upon me like a giant, like a migh...
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.